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No One Man Should Have All That Klout
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— 6 Jan 2011 Tom 9 comments

The social media bits of the Twittersphere I read have been very approving of an AdAge piece this week by Matthew Creamer. Creamer lays into the firm Klout, who peddle a metric of how influential someone is based on the Twitter activity surrounding t[…]

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NARNIA WEEK: What’s So Scary About Extra Teeth?
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— 6 Jan 2011 Pete Baran 14 comments

As the resident Freakytrigger fearologist, I can no longer hold my fire on the most insidious trend of monster movies of the last twenty years. It is OK when a few late night shockers tumble down this line, but when even a Narnia film tiptoes into th[…]

Freaky Trigger Readers Poll 2010: 22-12
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— 6 Jan 2011 Tom 18 comments

Another 11 of your Top However-Many-It-Is-Now, bringing us into the Top 20 in the poll.
22. KANYE WEST – “Power”: While I’ve waned and waxed on some of the Kanye tracks, this bit of unashamed art-rock is one which I think I l[…]

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